Innocent vs Unknowing - What's the difference?
innocent | unknowing |
Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
* 1606 , , IV. iii. 16:
Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
Naive; artless.
* 1600 , , V. ii. 37:
(obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.
* Alexander Pope
Having no knowledge (of something).
Lacking (something).
Lawful; permitted.
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
Those who are innocent; young children.
Without knowing; ignorant.
(obsolete) Unknown, unbeknownst ((to) someone).
*1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke II:
*:And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother.
In obsolete terms the difference between innocent and unknowing
is that innocent is not harmful; innocuous; harmless while unknowing is unknown, unbeknownst ({{term|to}} someone).As adjectives the difference between innocent and unknowing
is that innocent is (pure, free from sin, untainted)Free from guilt, sin, or immorality while unknowing is without knowing; ignorant.As a noun innocent
is those who are innocent; young children.innocent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
- I can find out no rhyme to / 'lady' but 'baby' – an innocent rhyme;
- an innocent medicine or remedy
- The spear / Sung innocent , and spent its force in air.
- an innocent trade
- innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation
Synonyms
* (free from blame or guilt) sackless * (free from sin) pure, untainted * See alsoAntonyms
* (bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act) guilty, nocentNoun
(en noun)- The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.